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Griffin, William J. – Elementary English, 1970
The (Roger A.) McCaig article appeared in Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 5 (May 1970), pp. 612-18: How Not To Analyze the Syntax of Children"; it was critical of a study in which the author was a co-investigator ( Syntax of Kindergarten and Elementary School Children: A Transformational Analysis," 1967). (RD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Kindergarten Children, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Eskey, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1970
Urging that the structure of written English must be approached systematically if good readers are to be produced, the author describes a transformationally oriented technique designed to introduce advanced students to the structure of educated written English. Examples of materials are included. (Author/FB)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Reading Instruction, Reading Level
Chevalier, Jean-Claude – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, 1970
Speech delivered at the Deutscher Neuphilologentag," Munster, West Germany, April 2, 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Pattern Drills (Language)
Jacobs, Roderick A. – TESOL Quart, 1969
"Deletion is posited as a universal process in language, and "identity and "indefiniteness are suggested as universal conditions under which deletion takes place. Usefulness of exploiting language similarities in language teaching is stressed. This paper was presented at the TESOL Convention, Chicago, March 1969. (FWB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English (Second Language), Language Universals
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Brennan, Mary; Colville, Martin – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Describes a research project intended to develop a description, within a generative model, of British Sign Language grammar, with particular focus on time expressions. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Grammar, Language Research
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Algeo, John – NASSP Bulletin, 1981
Outlines three senses of the term grammar, why some type of grammar should be taught, the three types of grammatical description that can be taught, and four procedures and four conditions for teaching any type of grammar. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability, Sentence Diagraming
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Li, Cheng-ching – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1980
Explores the role of negative marking in the mapping of the semantic and syntactic structures of Taiwanese modals on to their surface structure in terms of syntactic transformations. Particular attention is paid to the process of lexical fusion as it occurs in such negative forms as "be" and "m." (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Morphemes, Negative Forms (Language), Phrase Structure
Soga, Matsuo; Fujimura, Taiji – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1978
Discusses the construction "Sentence + no + Noun" in contemporary Japanese. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Grammar, Japanese
Michiels, A. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1978
Analyzes a selection of papers centered around the idea that it is possible to consider the evidence of language variation in linguistic analysis. The papers were presented at the 1972 colloquium on "New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English," Georgetown University. (AM)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Grammar, Language Variation, Linguistic Competence
Claude, Pierre – Langues Modernes, 1976
Attempts a sketchy classification of English causative verbs, using various linguistic theories but primarily that of generative grammar. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar, Grammar
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Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 1995
Reviews "The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language" (S. Pinker). Defines generative grammar, examines the evidence for Pinker's Generative Grammar as Instinct hypothesis, and discusses Pinker's use of language acquisition as support for the hypothesis. Suggests alternative theories of language that begin from different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Langacker, Ronald W. – Language, 1995
An account of the phenomena that transformational syntax handled by means of "raising" is formulated in the context of cognitive grammar. Raising is analyzed as a special case of the metonymy that relational expressions exhibit in regard to their choice of overtly coded arguments. The transparency of these constructions is explained. (83…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure, Semantics
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Baker, C. L. – Language, 1995
Locally free reflexives in British English are analyzed as intensified nonnominative pronouns, subject to a contrastiveness requirement and a requirement that the character referred to be more central than other characters in the set. The extent to which discourse prominence marking can mimic locality marking may explain conversions of intensives…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages)
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Youmans, Gilbert – Language, 1991
Proposes the Vocabulary-Management Profile, a tool for discourse analysis. The number of new words introduced in a moving interval of text 35 words long is counted and a curve created by plotting the number of new words in a successive interval at the midpoint of the interval. Analyses of text by George Orwell and James Joyce are presented. (JL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar
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Glass, William R.; Perez-Leroux, Ana T. – Second Language Research, 1999
Presents two studies on the acquisition of null subjects by English adult learners of Spanish. Findings lend support to grammatical, as opposed to probabilistic, approaches to language learning. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, English, Generative Grammar, Grammar
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